The Worst of All Possible Worlds

case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire // https://www.worstpossible.world

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I love @theworstofallpossibleworlds podcast so much specifically because it is three Theatre Guys, and the theatre episodes are just so. nice. to listen to. as someone who hasn't been able to act or do theatre stuff for over 4 years now. Sunday in the Park with George is my new favourite musical after Pippin (I always loved Mandy Patinkin and "Finishing the Hat" but in context of the whole show?? WHEW!! I am gonna challenge myself to work on Bernadette Peters' songs too.) Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen episodes were extremely vindicating as a hater of both.

Julius Caesar episode is motivating me to gather monologues again and resume monologue work/Shakespeare audition prep with my voice teacher. I have a copy of Coriolanus at my bedside (never read or saw it before) and I'll probably listen to that episode next.

I've also been watching the Pentiment livestream VODs because they're just delightful.

Anyway.

[edgepeasant]

I love @theworstofallpossibleworlds podcast so much specifically because it is three Theatre Guys, and the theatre episodes are just so. nice. to listen to. as someone who hasn't been able to act or do theatre stuff for over 4 years now. Sunday in the Park with George is my new favourite musical after Pippin (I always loved Mandy Patinkin and "Finishing the Hat" but in context of the whole show?? WHEW!! I am gonna challenge myself to work on Bernadette Peters' songs too.) Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen episodes were extremely vindicating as a hater of both.

Julius Caesar episode is motivating me to gather monologues again and resume monologue work/Shakespeare audition prep with my voice teacher. I have a copy of Coriolanus at my bedside (never read or saw it before) and I'll probably listen to that episode next.

I've also been watching the Pentiment livestream VODs because they're just delightful.

Anyway.

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Hello! I am a relatively new listener/patron and I am curious: what is the origin of AJ'S Horse Corner? As a fellow horse girl I am dying to know. Thanks and take care!

It started with episode 8 - Blackgaardology feat. Rob Mobley! There's an extended riff in that episode about Tom Riley's horse breaking up a marriage (it makes sense in context, we swear) and A.J. sort of ran with it from there. Thanks for listening!

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TODAY: We got Dono and Audrey from RADIO FREE TOTE BAG to chat about a show we all had pretty different reactions to.

Listen to the whole ep on our Patreon

Or catch the first half hour on any podcast service

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THIS WEDNESDAY: we're down to clown in our VR headsets as we join THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS with Radio Free Tote Bag. Does it live up to the hype? Has fandom gone too far? What is a "You Tube"? Answers to all these questions and more await this week on TWOAPW

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are you the lion or the dokney

I am neither Lion nor Dril

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For episode 250 of The Worst of all Possible Worlds, we decided to look at a little indie game no one has heard of: Undertale

The episode is free. Listen to it in full wherever you get podcasts

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THIS WEDNESDAY: Cool Voltaire has fallen underground and he's full of determination! We're covering Undertale, a game about making friends, unless you kill them first. Get ready for some FEELINGS

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TWOAPW #249: VEGGIETALES

The Lads discuss the origins of Big Idea Studios as they watch the first two VeggieTales tapes (Where's God when I'm S-Scared? and God Wants me to Forgive Them!?!) as well as their ambitious half hour musical Rack, Shack and Benny

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I’m a nerd but it would be cool if you got an academic on and talked about The Name of the Rose

best i can do is josh sawyer, maybe

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are you the ones who were on lions led by donkeys

yeah a couple times

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Hello? Is there anybody in there?

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To celebrate the 159th Canada Day and 250th Independence Day, we're covering another singular sensation from The Public Theater.

HAMILTON is what happens when a relentless creative talent who loves hip hop and showtimes in equal measure gets to make exactly what he wants. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote a musical that he hoped would portray America in all of its past complexity, present splendor and future potential, and what he made was a perfect artifact of its exact moment, revealing all of the misconceptions holding together a reality that was about to crumble.

Check it out over on our Patreon. The episode is almost four hours long

247 - Hamilton | The Worst of All Possible Worlds

We’re not throwing away our shot.

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I'm so thirsty, you need to help me

Try a water or a nice diet soda

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TWOAPW #246: 007 FIRST LIGHT

Leading James Bond researcher @postoctobrist comes back on to talk about IO Interactive's first non-HITMAN game since KANE & LYNCH 2. It's also the first Bond game since Activision's rushed cash-grab, 007 LEGENDS, killed the franchise.

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WEDNESDAY: @postoctobrist is back!

We're talking with her about 007 First Light, the hit reboot of the James Bond game franchise from the makers of Hitman. Bond is younger, he has the scar from the books, but is he finally woke?! Only we know the answer.